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[
Footnote III: This text has already been published with some slight
variations in Dozio's pamphlet Degli scritti e disegni di Leonardo
da Vinci, Milan 1871, pp. 30--31. Dozio did not transcribe it from
the original MS. which seems to have remained unknown to him, but
from an old copy (MS. H. 227 in the Ambrosian Library).]
GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
Prolegomena.
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You must first explain the theory and then the practice. First you
must describe the shadows and lights on opaque objects, and then on
transparent bodies.
Scheme of the books on Light and shade.
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11.
INTRODUCTION.
[Having already treated of the nature of shadows and the way in
which they are cast [Footnote 2: Avendo io tractato.--We may
suppose that he here refers to some particular MS., possibly Paris
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